Becoming an entrepreneur is the in-thing now – it sounds cool and trendy. That’s fairly good news for the world; hopefully the world is becoming a better place. In a world where change is the only constant, the start-up scene is becoming more...

Use system symbolic and alias , no need to change to any app JCL when the product is going to upgrade. The customers may have one concern that the when the subsystem upgrade, all the user application using the current version libs need to change to link...

More on the CLM SAP integration... Create an initial identity for web services calls before the Rational Connector can exchange data with Solution Manager and Service Desk. This user is completely internal to the SAP Solution Manager configuration....

You can do it using smitty or by command line, here is the steps for both ways. smitty tcpip -> further Configuration -> Network Interfaces -> Network Interface Selection -> Configure Aliases You can do it from commandline too: chdev...

WebSphere MQ implements more enhancements and improvements with each new version that is released. While major changes receive a lot of fanfare through topics in the IBM Knowledge Center, there are often many behind-the-scenes updates that aren't as...

What is an IP alias IP aliasing is associating more than one IP address to a network interface. IP aliasing in RPT By default, when you run a schedule, each virtual user has the same IP address. However, you can make each virtual user appear as though...

After upgrading from AIX 5.2 to 6.1, a customer tried to run the lsof command (that's the command to list open files on the system) and came across this error: The lsof was compiled for AIX 5.2. The customer tried to run this lsof command from...

I found an interesting question in our worldwide IBM internal SAN support community the other day. A colleague asked if there is a command that returns all zones for a given WWPN on a Brocade switch. While I thought there was a command for a simple task like...

Background Back in the early 1990s when I first started working on database language architecture, DB2 for Linux, Unix, and Windows was a new DB2 database manager (I believe we called it DB2 for common servers back then) and making a big jump in the SQL that...

This sample and paper demonstrates XDF
data value evolution features showing you in a practical way the way an application would change data in an in memory datagrid. Websphere eXtreme Scale Version
8.6 introduces Enterprise Data Grid (EDG) capabilities...

Lets imagine a new rack server or a new blade server has been added to your Fibre Channel SAN. The first job for the SAN administrator is to zone it to the storage it requires access to. The task normally runs something like this: Identify the WWPNs for the...